Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.
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25 responses to Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Distributed SCM’s I think is all about following natural habbits as humanbeings, and while working distributed you also socialice more, and thats really a good thing, in my personal opinion.
Google comes up with some awesome stuff with very unique ideas.
@ChesterDoraemon and at the end of your natural life, your code will be forever yours
@miyukiTS Rofl, way to flaunt it.
“I am a very cynical and untrusting person, I think most of you are completely incompetent.” – to a room full of Google employees
Linus is one of a kind, and proof that the more opinionated you are, the further you will go, and the better you will make things for everyone else.
@miyukiTS
Yeah, why not?
Are you geek?
Just curious.
@terae77
I am a transsexual woman. Does that count?
I need a VCS that does both Windows and Linux well, so Git may not be it. This guy does all in C. Why? Did he miss the OO revolution? Hes so fun to listen to ‘case he’s not like everyone else with overdone animated PowerPoint presentations. I am using svn case it integrates lovely with Windows Turtles(Turtosie) unlike the crappy Bazaar Turtles. Once Bazaar team comes up with a better Turtles than my current svn Turtles, I may Switch to Bazaar case I do lots of off-line development.
the issue is simple. i get paid for my code and i don’t share my trade secrets with anyone unless they are willing to open their wallets. no version control problems for me!
Bazaar wasn’t around back then. I wonder how that would stack up.
Hope this young man grew more humble
Linus Harrington
This is really awesome. I now use git for almost all of my homework – even when it doesn’t involve code.
A GOD IN MY BOOK
I’m starting to get into git. It’s pretty cool.
@pro7ron Distributed source control does not require a server to run. If git is fast for the linux project, it will be fast for your project. The quality of their servers is irrelevant, as all the work is done on the development box.
This is not true of centralized source control systems like CVS or SVN. Don’t let CVS rot your brain!
Excited to learn more about git for work. This video was a nice overview of benefits.
The one thing I wish Linus would do is talk in terms of bytes and IOPS, in addition to time. It’s nice to know that his setup can run something large in a few seconds, but I have to believe he has nice servers for that – after all he’s using 3 firewalls that we know about
It’d be nice to take something more objective and use that to figure out how long it would take our setups to process.
@musashikyo maybe you’re american, but you know, hanging out with guys doesn’t mean one is gay.
So yea, this talk is just *that* much fun.
@hasenj
I might be a moron but doesnt change the fact … u saw his video 10 times. Since obviously u are smart … the only reason u watched it the other 9 times was cause u were jerking off to linus? if thats not gay I donno what is ….
@musashikyo you’re a moron
@musashikyo No… You’re just ugly.
@hasenj
wow u watched it 10 times!? u must be gay…
31:41 Question 3 – Are any companies using distributed systems? There seems to be a risk of code bases diverging too much.
32:30 Mercurial – the only other open source distributed VCS worth looking at. Everything else is either centralised, or too slow or unstable.
32:55 Question 3.5 – But is there an advantage for a company to have a centralised model?
33:00 Companies think there is, but there isn’t.
33:20 Git subversion (svn) interfacing
Here’s a start at an index of sorts: could this be put into the description?
12:00 Distribution
15:00 CVS Merge Branching
17:50 Perforce at Google
18:18 Committers – Ostensibly not morons
21:30 Question 1 – how to migrate big code bases
22:00 An actual example of distribution
27:00 Question 2 – Politics have just been shifted? You still have to merge. How?
27:38 Networks of trust and masturbation
28:00 The way Linus and Kernel development works
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